From 1969 to 1976 in the University ENT Clinic Mainz, a total of 677 patients received insertion of ventilation tubes into the eardrum. Three hundred eighty-five cases were able to be statistically evaluated. These were 80 adults and 305 children, 37 of these with cleft palate. All together a total of 875 operated ears were considered.
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